This site definitely needs a complete overhaul to better represent our
emphasis on a very interesting
TradeStation™
trading technique of ours, previously briefly
described here. The toolset (v2) has been rewritten and expanded
dramatically in the last 2 years, and is also a great tool
for developers as a API is now also available.

Pending the much awaited site reformatting, it is
recommended for those of you interested in this new
"unconventional" discretionary
trading technique to visit the following blogs:

Many market traders spend endless time
and effort trying to get "the" edge with fancy tools and
techniques exhibiting some predictive value. We've been
around since 1993 and have also wandered and erred a bit
along the way with
the on-going conundrum, the illusion of easy money, or the
faith in an hypothetical Holy Grail, greed, you name it...
Fortunately we quickly came back to our senses, and focused
on developing tools mostly for ourselves.

Having explored artificial intelligence
quite a bit over many years, we decided to make a first tool available to
traders (the GPF), so this site was
launched in 1999. Blending the "Foresight" or
"Forecast" and "Trading" words seemed to express what we had
in mind. To some, this will appear ambitious,
overconfident, pretentious maybe... On the contrary, we know
how difficult trading can be, and we only release tools we
use ourselves, and while those tools can be generic and
derived in many ways, we slowly built our own trading
environment around the well known
TradeStation platform. Nothing exceptional maybe, but
enough to have a consistent reading of the market, and
enough to capitalise on such knowledge. Release has
been
planned then postponed (a lot of stuff in the pipeline like
sFLC3 now available), so please check this site regularly for
updates.

Why such hesitation? Well, a few market
snapshots are now being posted daily and weekly, and a few
trial users are being coached personally to learn our trading method until each
makes it his or her own. It can be a fairly long
learning process, and it may actually be the route of choice
to release our market reading technique, at least for now.
Many non-TS users also decide to instead subscribe to personalised
daily market reports (indices and forex). So, not sure how
to properly approach demand, keeping in mind most of our
stuff core is meant to remain generic to be used outside the trading
arena itself i.e. any time series.

What does the TS toolset actually consist of? We have admittedly wandered quite a bit
in the last 15 years, going through a few
changes in directions, from developing on several platforms,
trading, working for a fund, so it is a summary of years of
coding and trading experience concentrated around the
TradeStation platform (custom C++ DLL). None of the
tools are standard, yet the toolset is itself fully
standardised i.e. the same workspaces and charts are used
for about any symbol and time frame with only 1 indicator
eventually requiring an adjustment of 1 or 2 settings once
in a while.
A standard environment is by far the best way to learn the
method or trading technique as the eye quickly picks up the
trading opportunities.

For more information, please read this
page and consult
the abovementioned blogs. Yes, I know... a 10-year old kid
would design a better looking web site...

Other underlying goals, objectives,
Expectations and realities

Besides the TradeStation toolset and technique, Foretrade
remains focused around its original concept:
ForeTrade Technologies endeavour to provide financial
market traders with custom trading solutions and tools using
advanced non linear techniques such as artificial
intelligence (neural nets, fuzzy logic and genetic
algorithms) and wavelets. It is not our intention however to
offer turnkey solutions at this stage while the decision making
process will be facilitated as we plug in more and more tools (TradeStation
Trading Technique Phase 2 under way now). It would be a fallacy to
pretend we can design ready-made trading solutions that can suit
everyone's expectations. A number if not most technology
providers do not quite share that concern... so sorry to
disappoint you (better now than later though) but we shall not
indulge into marketing nonsense and promise you a black-box cash
machine. There will be work on your side too...

Secondly, while trading was initially the primary motivation,
a number of technologies exposed on this site have numerous
other applications, and our tools have since 1999 often been
used for tutorial purposes as well as in interesting research
projects. Latest developments (including this TradeStation
Trading Toolset) are more and more generic to analyse other
types of times series event driven behaviours, and to
possibly run on Linux platforms as well as Windows.

We hope you'll enjoy the visit, do not hesitate to drop a
mail at any time for more details.

Custom work made to
specific requests or under confidentiality clauses may not be
presented here. We can however here present a few tools
(most are FREE or cost a penny) which we hope you'll find
interesting, all are either developed for TradeStation, or
Excel-VB/VBA or are standalone applications.

Lastly, even though artificial intelligence has now found its
niche in the trading world, the learning curve can be pretty
steep for some, and many many misconceptions have built up over the
years. Please
contact us for training or consulting services
(French/English) either on site or through conference calls.

Direct contact via IM and
Skypeis offered to registered customers
Note: Good VC++ developers interested in
co-developing
this new exciting TradeStation trading platform (V2) can contact me
by mail
of skype (permanently offline, message only)
You can also listen to some classical music
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